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Poetry International Web (PIW) is a 'worldwide forum for poetry on the internet.' PIW includes 'news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation.'

'PIW differs from other poetry sites on the internet firstly in its strong emphasis on poetry in translation as a way of stimulating the exchange of knowledge of poetry worldwide. Secondly, PIW is structured in a rather unusual way. In the context of nearly all our web pages, a selection of links is generated under the heading 'Related Items', based on certain common characteristics of the pieces in question. [...] Visitors are encouraged to stroll, loiter, skip and meander more freely and intuitively from one page to the next, from one country to another - with a healthy disregard of borders and frames - than is possible on sites of a more conventional design, and, hopefully, encounter something interesting and unexpected along the way.'

New material regularly appears on the central, international domain of PIW. 'Every week, the central domain chooses one poem from the work of the 'Poets of the Quarter' as Poem of the Week. In addition, visitors of PIW can expect to find international poetry news, book reviews and coverage of important international events on the central domain. But also a monthly column by Dutch poet laureate Gerrit Komrij, regular interviews, and essays by leading poets, critics and writers.'

(Source: Poetry International Web, http://www.poetryinternational.org/)